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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: HP 5L: Any Problems with FreeBSD?
Date: 15 Jun 1996 23:50:15 GMT
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mcnab@bayarea.net (David McNab) wrote:

>   I'm thinking of buying an HP LaserJet 5L.  I
> will use it to print PostScript documents (via
> ghostscript) on my FreeBSD 2.1 system, and also
> probably once a while with various MS-DOG and 
> Windows applications.
> 
>   I assume there are people out there who have
> done the same -- any comments, favorable or
> otherwise?  Any problems printing PostScript
> documents using ghostscript?  Is memory size
> an issue?

The default ghostscript fonts are a bit ugly.

ghostscript is definately a memory and CPU hog.

Nevertheless, we run a similar solution at work, and it's going fine.
After upgrading my workstation to 32 MB, i don't even notice the
background job (despite of a full screen of various X11 apps, and an
average swap allocation of 30...50 MB).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)